POPULOUS AND BEAUTIFUL 
SZECHUAN TAG 
Photo from China Inland Mission, Toronto 
A GROUP OF CHINESE WOMEN AT SHIH-MEN KAN, YUNNAN, CHINA 
Married women who have borne children have their hair done up on top of the head in the 
shape of a horn 
dence of any extensive faulting was 
noted. 
The series of sedimentary formations 
is very thick. We estimated that be- 
tween the Triassic red beds, which have 
been sharply bent upward out of the 
Chengtu plain, and the basal granite in 
the mountains, we could scarcely have 
crossed less than 8 miles of vertically 
standing sedimentary beds. This would 
seem to imply a thickness in the neigh- 
borhood of 40,000 feet for this part of 
the stratigraphic column, if there be no 
unrecognized duplicaticn. 
More could not be seen in the scant 
time at our disposal. We hurried back 
to Tzien Keh Ching over the winding 
pathway. Several times it was necessary 
to cross over the rushing waters of the 
Min on swaying bamboo suspension 
bridges, which added to the picturesque- 
ness of travel. Interesting sights and 
incidents enlivened the way, but our chief 
need was to get back to educational work 
at Chengtu as quickly as possible, and 
we bent our efforts to that end. Two 
days later we reéentered the beautiful 
capital of Szechuan. 
